Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-06-09
n. II. Porter was up from Oakley Mon


day
DR.. S. B. Lutgen visited Colby last
Saturday.
There are 1000 people in Thomas coun-
ty to-day.
Largest crowd in Colby Saturday last
for months.
Bill Younger, of Wendell Tp., was in
Colby Saturday last.
The papers of Texas stand 50 for pro
hibition and % against.
Many are passing through Colby now
en- route for Burlington. Col.
Page& Leal, formerly of this county,
have hotel in Burlington, Col.
The frequent rains make the crops
grow and the people feel happy.
New rates on chattel loans on
best terms at Weld Bros.
Ed. D. Patrick and wife and MIR. Thorn
son and wife. of 6, 81, made us call
Saturday last.
Mr.. John Shafer, of Hale Tp., was in
Colby last Saturday. He has 100 acres
in crop this year.
H. E. Weld. Sec'y Lowell Town Co.,
was in Colby last week. He will return
to Colby the last of this week to remain.
Tom Sutton has returned from his trip
to Mobeto, Texas He left Mr.. c. H. Bull
lers at Salina. from which point he will
20 to Smith Center, Kansas.
Save money by making your
chattel loans of Weld Bros.
MIR. Tom Baldwin and wife, Mr.. Savin
and wife. Mrs. E. c. Spellman and Miss
Bradley gave the CAT Office genial
call on Saturday last. Come again.
Frank Casterline. of Omaha. Nebr., is
now a typo on the CAT. He is brother
of F. w. Casterline. attorney of Oberlin,
Kansas.
II. Wilson and Phil. Troutfettcr were
over last week from Burlington, Col.
The latter has beautiful claim adJoln
ing Burlington on the north.
No town in western Kansas is building
so many stately residences rs Colby.
This is indicative of permanent growth
and shows the people have confidence in
this city.
eE-"Why should cocks figure on the
TOP of church steeplesy at
Work.
Why should they figure so prominently
in the churches generally?-Troy Chief.
Mr.. Jay Gould says that in his Pacific
railway transactions he Cooked after the
interests of the government This is
what makes the government sorry that it
didn't look first.
Stripped of its mosquito netting,
the word mugwump means free trader
You can poke it for that, and not miss
one time in a hundred.-Detroit Tri-
bune.
Henry Augustus Yoonge is bigger
man than old Jack Sparks, and runs the
local Office regardless OF the rules and in
structions received from the general land
office at Washington Yoonge has a
great head.-ScOttsville Independent.
Eli Perkins says: why. the word goes
out that Kansas is getting rich. So she
is. Before you had prohibition you sent
out $27, 900, 900 for liquors; last year you
sent out 100000. Another thing you
are getting rich in, is your noble mel
and women"
For Burlington town lots see
Weld Bros.
Oakley, Kansas, June 1. 1857
[SpecI. l-Grading is finished on the Oak.
lev and Northwestern to Colby, and
trains will be running in sixty days. Elk
Governor Click and other prominent
capitalists have been here two days and
have bought over half of the vacant town
property.-Abilene Gazette.
The Burlington Blade is the new speak
ing trumpet for fine new town, sixty
miles northwest of Wallace in Ebert Co.,
Col. The Blade is of this spring growth,
young, vigorous and symmetrical. We
don't admire its politics, but under the
circumstances there was nothing else the
boys could do. Whoop'er up for Burling-
ton and proofs.-Wallace Register.
HE. Weld, Secretary Burlington Town
Company, passed through town Wednes-
day en- route for Colby. Mr.. Weld is
very much encouraged over the fine
building prospects of their town. Two
double store buildings two stories high
are among the valuable improvements
now under process of construction. A
40 < so two story hotel is to be pushed
to completion as rapidly as material can
be procured. The settlement in eastern
Colorado and western Kansas is without
parallel in the history of the country